SB 378 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Bail bondsman; modifying certain reviewal fee. Effective date.

SB 378 updates Oklahoma's bail bondsman regulations by requiring detailed written receipts for all collateral (property or cash used as security), depositing cash collateral into a separate trust account within two business days, and submitting monthly electronic reports to the Insurance Commissioner. The bill also changes the monthly reviewal fee to 0.0015% of new bond liability, payable to the Insurance Commissioner. These provisions directly affect licensed bail bondsmen and their insurers, ensuring clearer handling of collateral and financial records. The changes become effective November 1, 2025.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Mar 11, 2025

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Introduced → Floor (Senate) · 3 edits

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The bill text was reformatted from an introduced version to a Senate floor version with updated page headers, committee information, and formatting conventions. The substantive legislative content regarding bail bond regulations, collateral receipt requirements, and fee structures remains unchanged.

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Page numbering and header formatting were updated to reflect Senate floor processing, including addition of committee report information and bold face notation for committee amendments.

Line numbering was restructured from a continuous sequence to page-based formatting typical of floor versions.

Committee report section was added indicating the Committee on Business and Insurance recommendation for the bill to pass.

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Committee

Mar 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors